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justinwr

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justinwr··on Node-behaving--badly: A sandbox for writing terribly performing code in Node.js
Not entirely certain if it's bad form to plug this here but I figured the cause was just.
justinwr··on Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room
"tl;dr: if you want to do web development but dislike Rails, your best bet is probably to switch to a different programming language than Ruby."

But... wasn't this the underlying point of Solnic's opinion piece?

Due to Rails "well deserved" domination in the web framework space, POROs never had a chance of contributing to friendly and just competition across the Ruby community. We simply ended up with shitty alternatives because no one was given the proper chance to be BETTER Rubyists.

They just kept eating the gluten and feeling the allergy pains, so to speak.

Ah well...

EDIT: shrug quoting...

justinwr··on Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room
I concur. Coming from São Paulo, Brazil, I thought Akita's post was well written and derived out of positive, lightly spoken, opinion. Breath of fresh air against the backdrop of hostile tech machoism.
justinwr··on A former CIA spy has revealed his key role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela
Thank you.
justinwr··on VXHeaven: Source code for classic viruses
Oh the memories of collecting all those Vienna's...
justinwr··on What Dwarf Fortress Taught Me About Startups
Whoops.
justinwr··on YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
Damnit! I hate it when people advertise my favorite software.
justinwr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)
I highly recommend working with Colin, he's a great guy.

Cheers!

justinwr··on Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket
Same thing happened to me in 1998 but in tech school. Good times. ;)
justinwr··on Bitbucket announces Connect platform
Great news for anyone that doesn't care at all about protecting their SCM with MFA.
justinwr··on Starting off in Rust: Trying to write a shell
Shame the blog is so horrible because I'd love to read the text and enjoy a hypertext document or two.
justinwr··on Tips for Getting Started With AWS
Oh, I thought this article was about AWS not SSH. My bad. Yeah, don't rotate your SSH keys either.
justinwr··on Tips for Getting Started With AWS
Here's a better idea. Learn to use IAM properly and rotate your keys on a schedule.
justinwr··on Onion Terminal is a Web Browser Unix Terminal
Chrome/Chromium have had something similar... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
justinwr··on Ask HN: What is Google.com/domains?
Totally missed the FAQ there. Thanks!
justinwr··on Clochure — A Better Clojure
This is a repost, no?
justinwr··on Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea
I completely agree, moving the port is a must just to change up the configuration from everyone else's. Configuration items like port numbers are meant to be tweaked, especially when you can just stick a unique SSH port in your ssh_config.

However, it's not hard to imagine these scanners have moved further past the days of the Morris worm and aren't just simple port scanners. Identifying what services are on what ports is a relatively easy process that doesn't remove much from the discovery phase of a bot or script kiddie. Hell, code review metasploit for a half hour and rip theirs out.

justinwr··on Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea
I posted the original because I thought it was interesting. Elated to see an honest response. I love HN.
justinwr··on Show HN: Unibox, the people-centric email client released on the Mac App Store
I don't think I've ever tried another email client and somehow lost control of my previous one.
justinwr··on Show HN: Unibox, the people-centric email client released on the Mac App Store
"Hide Unibox group" under Advanced in the Settings. I had the same initial experience.
justinwr··on FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says
Helicopters.
justinwr··on Yahoo shuts down six products
People used Yahoo in 2006?
justinwr··on Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak
Oh it definitely was.
justinwr··on A congressman who justifies every vote on Facebook
"refuse to govern"... I mean, everyone else thats the opposite of this guy is obviously building utopia.
justinwr··on Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
Well, that escalated quickly.
justinwr··on Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak
The last time I jailbroke my devices they slowed to a crawl and crashed frequently. Felt like I had installed Windows on my iOS device. I'd much rather have my walled garden of reliable bliss.

I'll still donate to the cause however. Keep up the fine work gents! :)

justinwr··on Get notified when a periodic task doesn't run
I definitely know quite a few small projects that this could be extremely useful for. However, I think some people are right that Munin works better at tracking these things long term.